Alan Wake 2 is horrible compared to the first.

[Arvay6]

So much backtracking with respawning enemies, tedious puzzles, unrewarding gameplay, gimmicky mechanics that just serve to waste your time and aren't even fun. They somehow made the combat worse than the first game, Saga is flat and boring, etc. Save your money if you're considering it tbh

[Ziyinzhuangyang]

they both suck

[reapermaan85]

What mechanics did you find gimmicky?

[hannibal_pjv]

Alan Wake 2 is so much better!
More exploring and deductive game play! That is so good change to previous one,

[NeutronVortex]

I'm replaying AW2 now and I have to say I'm enjoying it less this time around. I find I dislike Alan's chapters in particular. Nightmare New York just isn't nearly as interesting as the rest of the game and exploration feels pretty non-existent there and can be repetitive and boring at times.

Also, Alan's chapters sometimes just get a bit to over-the-top like that whole weird dancing section in one of his later chapters and pushing fourth wall breaks(sidenote; the start of Tim's Night Spring episode made me lose interest right off the bat and I quit back to the menu soon after.)

I think Saga's half of the game is the better half, tbh.

[RobotMan #08]

Alan Wake 1 is still a fantastic and fun game, even American Nightmare is better than Alan Wake 2.

[HawlEffect]

Agreed. I read so many glowing reviews, "game of the year", etc., but what I experienced instead was a tedious snoozefest. Darn, I was really looking forward to it.
Thankfully my refund request was granted.

[HoboCop]

Originally posted by armadillo:

they both suck

Avatar checks out.

[dove]

Originally posted by Pi=Na+Z:

Originally posted by armadillo:

they both suck

Avatar checks out.

cry about it

[stuckintheinbetween]

Agreed. Alan Wake 2 is so boring. The game has no replay value whatsoever. I have played through other Remedy games multiple times, however I have no desire to play through this one again.

[Djinn]

Ok ... I've put a few hours into this, and I'm not ecstatic. The graphics are fine, but having to retread areas you've already visited is just not fun. Right now, I'm in the subway / city area, looking for "Words of Power" and ... I don't know, probably other things, but the game is so poor with direction that I'm just hoping I come across whatever I need to advance the plot. I can't tell you how many times I've cris-crossed the same area trying to find an objective because it's above or below me. The map is strictly 2D, and the areas that I have to play (and replay) are 3D, with multiple tiers.

What else ... the enemies are are a step down from AW1. There are shadow-people everywhere. Many of them are harmless. Some of them are hostile. If you don't want to waste batteries or ammo, the only way to tell the difference is to passively wait and see whether they decide to attack you.

In AW1, when you use the flashlight on a shadow-person, you see a shrinking circle of light that indicates how close you are to burning away the shadow. That indicator is gone replaced by the shadow people looking a little less shadowy after hitting them with the light. I miss the circle indicator; it really gave the player a good way to gauge the efficacy of your current light source.

I'll continue playing for the nostalgia factor, but the design of this game is poor. Stack that all in with the permanent Epic Game Store exclusivity, and the fact that when it was released, it was almost unplayable without mesh-shader cards (a requirement seen in no other game before or since) ... I'm just disappointed.

Holding out for something better from Control 2, and the Max Payne remakes.

[HoboCop]

Originally posted by Djinn:

I'll continue playing for the nostalgia factor

Originally posted by Djinn:

Holding out for something better from Control 2

The mice wept, pricked themselves... but wouldn't stop eating the cactus.
The definition of insanity.

[dove]

Originally posted by Pi=Na+Z:

Originally posted by Djinn:

I'll continue playing for the nostalgia factor

Originally posted by Djinn:

Holding out for something better from Control 2

The mice wept, pricked themselves... but wouldn't stop eating the cactus.
The definition of insanity.

Good rage bait.

[Zachal ij Danu]

Originally posted by hannibal_pjv:

Alan Wake 2 is so much better!
More exploring and deductive game play! That is so good change to previous one,

Deductive? They hold your hand through everything to a hilarious degree and the further in you go the more Saga ends up repeating things that the player, and even herself, already realized chapters before. It's just funny because you finally get to put a picture on a wall.

Slight spoiler but, I got annoyed by her 'profiling' in the beginning because it's not deductive. They have a reason for that later, but at the time it was really annoying she just knew things that couldn't have been verified with the evidence the player is given.

[Zachal ij Danu]

Djinn has the right take that combat has taken a back seat in this game. The flashlight is less intuitive than the first game and it's just not hitting that 'fun' meter fighting the darkness. I think maybe this is why they added a Story only difficulty because they were focused more on this than bothering with combat.

[Friedhelm]

Originally posted by Kevin R Nash:

they both suck

kinda like your opinion